{"id":6878,"date":"2015-04-24T20:15:25","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T04:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=6878"},"modified":"2015-04-24T20:15:25","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T04:15:25","slug":"interesting-starbucks-outage-tagged-thefrappening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/interesting-starbucks-outage-tagged-thefrappening\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Starbucks Outage Tagged #thefrappening"},"content":{"rendered":"

During my daily news browsing on Twitter I was reading how Starbucks apparently had a system outage where all of its stores were unable to take electronic payments. As a result, for many places if you didn\u2019t have cash to pay for your drinks the company simply gave away drinks for free. That must be a coffee lover\u2019s dream.<\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t drink coffee personally so this deal didn\u2019t cater to me. But it was interesting to think about business wise as you would think that a company would simply turn people away and apologize for the inconvenience. However, giving away drinks for free is an interesting way to apologize while maintaining a good image I must say. It\u2019s almost like the free advertising they are getting is probably worth more than the coffee they have given away.<\/p>\n

Would you have actually went out of your way to get free coffee in this case knowing that the payment system was malfunctioning?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During my daily news browsing on Twitter I was reading how Starbucks apparently had a system outage where all of its stores were unable to take electronic payments. As a result, for many places if you didn\u2019t have cash to pay for your drinks the company simply gave away drinks for free. That must be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[224,5232,1024,5738,5737,1677,168],"class_list":["post-6878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-canada","tag-free-coffee","tag-starbucks","tag-system-outage","tag-thefrappening","tag-twitter","tag-vancouver"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/turnout.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-1MW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6881,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6878\/revisions\/6881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}